Architect, IT

Overall Job Summary

This position is responsible for driving domain technology plans to align with enterprise goals, business plans and business processes for systems within a specific functional area. Additional responsibilities include general technical oversight and mentoring of team members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, and develop domain roadmaps that align with goals, business plans, and business processes.
• Identify and implement ongoing opportunities for system and process improvements.
• Plan project activities for a development or engineering team to meet enterprise schedule.
• Create project design documentation and provide technical oversight to ensure successful delivery.
• Maintain domain standards complying with enterprise standards, ensuring solutions are optimally designed, secure, well performing and integrated with other solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technology for use in domain.
• Document domain technology used to perform business processes.
• Identify, analyze, and communicate architecture and integration options and make recommendations to management.
• Control project from start to finish to ensure high quality, innovative and functional design.
• Provide general technical oversight and mentoring of team members.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years of increasingly technical Information Technology experience.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field preferred.
• Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills Or Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of diverse technical configurations, technologies and processing environments.
• Advanced ability to comprehend business requirements to ensure technical directions are supportive.
• Advanced ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Strong knowledge of SOA and object-oriented analysis and design.
• Strong knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes.
• Strong ability to conduct analysis sessions and may contribute to “Closure Documents.”
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of technical architecture alternatives.